On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:15 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> But real books don't have that 'search' box up at the top...
>> <SNIP>
>> Agree with one of the other responders about that's what the index is for.
>> One of my "tests" for a book on the subject is to go to the index and
>> see how easy it is to find the answers to some of the questions I have
>> that have moved me to buy a book on the subject.
If you know the right question ahead of time you probably really don't
need the book.
> Reminds me of the *only* O'Reilly book I didn't like: I think it was
> Larry's original book on Perl - the index was *dreadful*, couldn't find
> anything.
On the other hand, if you wrote a perl program following those
examples, it would almost certainly still run today, with the only
change it might need being to escape @ symbols that you had in
double-quoted strings. That's pretty rare.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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